Dávid Smid

Toward an Understanding of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Motivation: The Case of Hungary


Perceptions of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Career Intention

One emerging theme from my data was labeled career intention. It refers to the respondents’ perceptions of Hungarian pre-service English teachers’ intention to work as an English teacher after finishing the undivided initial teacher education program. This conceptualization is reminiscent of Dörnyei and Ottó’s (1998) motivation construct, in which intention (i.e., choice motivation) is understood as a direct antecedent of a person’s engagement in an activity (i.e., executive motivation). According to the findings, the majority of the instructors’ perception of their students’ career intention was rather ambivalent. In other words, most of them mentioned both stronger and weaker levels of intention, and there was only one respondent who appeared to be highly confident about students’ intention to work as an ELT professional in the future based on her experiences. Given that motivation is an unobservable psychological process (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2013; Petri & Govern, 2013; Reeve, 2009), the interviewees’ accounts were based on both their inferences of students’ behaviors as well as on students’ verbal reports.

Toward an Understanding of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Motivation: The Case of Hungary

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2022

ISBN: 978 963 454 818 8

In this monograph, the findings of a mixed-methods, multi-perspective empirical study targeting the motivation of Hungarian pre-service English teachers are presented and discussed. When it comes to the Hungarian context, the importance of the topic is indicated by issues, such as the ongoing workforce shortage in the public education sector and the latest reforming of the initial teacher education system. The present investigation sheds light on the complexity of Hungarian pre-service English teachers’ motivation, which was found to be a bipartite construct interrelated with cognitive, emotional, and social processes. It also offers insights into the motivating capacity of the undivided pre-service English teacher education program as well as the extent to which the initial teacher education system is effective with respect to its student recruitment policy. As such, this monograph might be beneficial to researchers, university instructors, mentor teachers, and educational policymakers alike.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/smid-toward-an-understanding-of-pre-service-english-teachers-motivation-the-case-of-hungary//

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